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Healey-Driscoll Administration Awards $1.2 Million in Grants for Solar to Three Non-Profits

1/15/2026 Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources

Newton Food Pantry, High Point Treatment Center, and Grow Associates will save nearly $235,000 each year in energy costs, direct more resources to their missions

Press Release

New Solar Programs to Provide $300 Million a Year in Savings and Benefits for Massachusetts

6/20/2025 Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll

Healey-Driscoll Administration’s new solar policies will jumpstart solar growth, get charges off bills, and lower wholesale electricity costs

Press Release

Healey-Driscoll Administration Celebrates Winning $156 Million in EPA’s Solar for All Competition

4/22/2024 Governor Maura Healey and Lt. Governor Kim Driscoll

Massachusetts’ Solar for All program could result in a 20% reduction in energy costs to 31,000 low-income and disadvantaged households, support 2,800 clean energy jobs, and decrease annual carbon emissions by 70,000 tons

Press Release

Healey-Driscoll Administration Identifies 52 GW of Top-Rated Solar Potential on 15th Anniversary of Green Communities Act

7/06/2023 Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

New Study and Mapping Tool Shows Massachusetts has Abundant Solar Potential to Reach Its Climate Goals